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In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green."
When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories.
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If book reviews just cut to the chase, this one would simply read: This is a terrific novel! Read it!” Ann Harleman, The Boston Globe
One of the most impressive novels in English of the past year, and I predict you’ll read it with your heart in your chest, inside the narrative, and the narrative inside you.” Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune
[An] extraordinary new novel lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender.” Pankaj Mishra, front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review
If God is in the details, Ms. Desai has written a holy book. Page after page, from Harlem to the Himalayas, she captures the terror and exhilaration of being alive in the world.” Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan
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The author of the acclaimed "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" takes readers to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency in Nepal challenges the old way of life--and opens up a grasping world of conflicting desires.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Like mother, like daughter. Anita Desai and Kiran Desai. Skilled writers, both of them; although the daughter is - so far - rather less prolific. "The Inheritance of Loss" was her second novel, following the highly entertaining "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard". This is the true first edition, preceding the UK edition. The book went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award as well as the Booker Prize for 2006. Lovely novel. There is some very slight crushing to spine ends, otherwise a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Codice articolo 000161
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Littered with colorful characters and settings and sweeping in scope, Kiran Desai's new novel, 'Inheritance of Loss', explores the sometimes funny, sometimes sad states of human nature. In the isolated Himalayan Mountains, an embittered judge lives alone, hoping to avoid contact. Then, his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. As Sai explores a relationship with her Nepali tutor, the judge's cook worries about his son, Biju, who is fleeing from the INS in NYC, and the judge faces his own past and the journey that brought him to the Himalayas. Poignant and entertaining, this is a story of the consequences of colonialism, religion, race, and nationalism, and of abiding love for life. Codice articolo 2206689
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